Open House London

Open House highlights in Central London

• 26 Whitehall

  Former Admiralty Building, London, SW1A 2WH

  This Grade I listed, former Admiralty building, located behind Robert Adam's Admiralty Screen on ...

• Argentine Ambassador's Residence

  49 Belgrave Sq, London, SW1X 8QZ

  Designed by Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), this building -christened by its first owner, Sidney Herbe...

• BBC Bush House

  Aldwych, London, WC2B 4PA

  Standing between Australia House and India House on the Aldwych, Bush House is best known as the ...

• Bevis Marks Synagogue

  2 Heneage Lane, London, EC3A 5DQ

  Founded in 1701 by Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, the superbly preserved Bevis M...

  

• BT Tower

  60 Cleveland St, London, W1T 4JZ

  One of London's tallest buildings (though its height depends on whether you include the mast that...

  

• The Dorchester

  Park Lane, W1K 1QA

  A Park Lane fixture since 1931, the Dorchester is thoroughly, opulently classical. With the grand...

• Foreign Office & India Office

  King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH

  These Grade I-listed government office buildings were designed by George Gilbert Scott in partner...

  

• Freemasons' Hall

  60 Great Queen St, London, WC2B 5AZ

  Freemasons' Hall, the eye-catchingly bombastic stone building where Long Acre becomes Great Queen...

• Gray's Inn

  South Square, London, WC1R 5ET

  One of the four Inns of Court that have the exclusive right to call men and women to the Bar, Gra...

• Guildhall

  Gresham St, London, EC2V 7HH

  Guildhall has been the City's seat of municipal government since the twelfth century, when the Lo...

• Guildhall Art Gallery

  Guildhall Yard, off Gresham St, London, EC2V 5AE

  The City of London's gallery contains numerous dull or unimpressive portraits of royalty and long...

• Haberdashers' Hall

  18 West Smithfield, EC1A 9HQ

  Over its six-and-a-half-century history, the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers has gradually mov...

• Leadenhall Market

  Gracechurch St, London, EC3V 1LR

  The atmospheric Leadenhall Market was constructed in 1881 by Horace Jones (who also built the mar...

• Lloyd's of London

  1 Lime St, London, EC3M 7HA

  Lord Rogers' high-tech Lloyd's of London building, constructed in 1986, with all its ducts, vents...

  

• The London Library

  14 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LG

  Founded in 1841 by Victorian writer and historian Thomas Carlyle, the library boasts a distinguis...

  

• Mansion House

  Walbrook, London, EC4N 8BH

  Mansion House is the Lord Mayor of London's official residence, an imposing neoclassical building...

• Methodist Central Hall

  Storey's Gate, London, SW1H 9NH

  This Edwardian neo-baroque building was opened in 1912 as a monument to mark the centenary of Joh...

• Park Lane Hotel

  Piccadilly, London, W1J 7BX

  An Art Deco treasure, Park Lane Hotel, designed by architect Henry Tanner and completed in 1927, ...

• Portcullis House

  Bridge Street, SW1A 2LW

  Opened by the Queen in 2001, Portcullis House provides offices for MPs and their staff, supplemen...

• RIBA

  66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

  Designed by George Grey Wornum, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) building is a fi...

• Royal Academy of Arts

  Piccadilly, London, W1J OBD

  Britain's first art school was founded in 1768 and moved to the extravagantly Palladian Burlingto...

  

• Royal Courts of Justice

  Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

  Two of the highest civil courts in the land sit in these imposing neo-Gothic buildings: the High ...

• Royal Ballet School

  46 Floral Street, London, WC2E 9DA

  The Royal Ballet's Upper School (for students age 16-18) is adjacent to the Royal Opera House in ...

• Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre

  Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX

  Tours of the 2007 Allies and Morrison refurbishment.

  

• Sanderson

  50 Berners St, London, W1T 3NG

  A noughties makeover by Philippe Starck and Denton Corker Marshall Architects turned the Grade II...

  

• St Martin-in-the-Fields

  Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JH

  There has been a church 'in the fields' between Westminster and the City since the thirteenth cen...

  

• Tower 42

  25 Old Broad St, London, EC2N 1HQ

  Designed by Richard Seifert and Partners for the National Westminster Bank, with its hexagonal ch...

• Wellington Arch

  Hyde Park Corner, W1J 7JZ

  Built in the late 1820s to mark Britian's triumph over Napoleonic France, Decimus Burton's Wellin...

• Wigmore Hall

  36 Wigmore St, London, W1U 2BP

  Built in 1901 as the display hall for the German company Bechstein Pianos, the Wigmore Hall was s...